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PayPal sues after Google unveils smartphone pay service
Google Inc. hopes to nudge consumers and merchants into a world where the smartphone has replaced the wallet as the container for credit cards, coupons and receipts.While it tackles that challenge, Google also will have to spar with the biggest online payment service, eBay Inc.'s PayPal, in a legal battle that could be filled with corporate intrigue.Previous deal lands new client for K&S
King Spalding partner Jack D. Capers Jr. landed client Eclipsys Corp., the Atlanta-based health care data technology company that last week announced plans for a $1.3 billion merger with Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc., because of a deal he closed a few years ago.That deal, he said, was the sale of Alpharetta-based medical software provider Per-Se Technologies to health care company McKesson Corp.'Tort reform' needs surgery, lawmakers say
THE LANDMARK 2005 TORT LAW went too far in giving legal protection to emergency room physicians, according to some Republican legislators and attorneys, and they are once again trying to change the law.A bipartisan group of state lawmakers last week introduced legislation to repeal a controversial part of the law that enacted sweeping changes to state rules governing medical-malpractice suits.US Supreme Court hears case over listing Israel on passports
A seemingly narrow-gauge dispute over the wording used on certain U.S. passports triggered a broad-ranging discussion at the Supreme Court on Monday about the separation of powers in matters of foreign policy. The case before the court is Zivotofsky v. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State. It is a dispute over a 2002 federal law that directs the State Department, on request, to list Israel as the country of birth on passports for U.N.Y. panel rejects arbitrator's $3M sanction
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For Roscoe Campbell, his family's quest for asylum in this country has been a "long and rough road, mentally, physically and financially." But years of fearing deportation when any stranger rang their doorbell or stopped them on the street ended this month with a remarkable and rare turnaround by the Board of Immigration Appeals.
Cast All the Lawyers: Bard Show Prepares For Its 10th Production
Daily Report readers know all too well what Shakespeare's Dick the Butcher suggested be done with lawyers.A hot niche in law: Scientists move to courtroom for patent work
PHILADELPHIA AP - In a span of seven years, Loretta Weathers moved from a plasma physics laboratory at MIT to a federal courtroom, trading long days of crunching data for the adrenalin rush of high-stakes litigation.The daughter of a Detroit autoworker, she had been tinkering with gadgets since she was a child. But after a few semesters in the prestigious Ph.Lieberman: Senate to investigate Ft. Hood shooting
FORT HOOD, Texas AP - A key U.S. senator said Sunday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.Sen. Joe Lieberman's call for an investigation came a day after classmates who participated in a 2007-2008 master's program at a military college said they complained to superiors about Maj.Trending Stories
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